"Dattatreya" is the universal Guru - Ramana Maharshi

"Dattatreya is the universal Guru, isn’t he? And he has said that the whole world was his Guru. If you look at evil you feel you should not do it. So he said evil also was his Guru. If you see good, you would wish to do it; so he said that good also was his Guru; both good and evil, he said, were his Gurus. It seems that he asked a hunter which way he should go, but the latter ignored his question, as he was intent upon his aim to shoot a bird above. Dattatreya saluted him, saying, ‘You are my Guru! Though killing the bird is bad, keeping your aim so steadfast in shooting the arrow as to ignore my query is good, thereby teaching me that I should keep my mind steadfast and fixed on Ishwara. You are therefore my Guru.’ In the same way he looked upon everything as his Guru, till in the end he said that his physical body itself was a Guru, as its consciousness does not exist during sleep and the body that does not exist should therefore not be confused with the soul — dehatmabhavana (the feeling that the body is the soul). Therefore that too was a Guru for him. While he looked upon the whole world as his Guru, the whole world worshipped him as its Guru."

(Bhagavan in 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 99)

Words of Wisdom-Ramana Maharshi

You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

*WORDS OF WISDOM*- Ramana Maharshi

[A visiting Pandit] asked, “Life itself becomes extremely hard in some places. How is one to perform sadhana (spiritual practice) in such places?”
Bhagavan replied, “The place is within you; you are not in the place. When you are in all places, where is the question of difficulties in some places, and not in others? All are within yourself. How can they cause you difficulties?” “But we get no peace of mind at all in some places,” he protested and Bhagavan replied, “That which always exists is peace. That is your natural state. You are not able to recognize your natural state. You get deluded by aberrations which are unreal and feel sorry that there is no peace. If you realize your self, all places will become equally suitable for sadhana.”
(From 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 101)

POINTS TO PONDER- Swaami Chinmayaananda

Spiritual Knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever, any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever; so, helping man spiritually is the highest help that can be given to him. Until there is spiritual strength in man even physical needs cannot be well satisfied.
~ Swami Vivekananda

~ Tripura Rahasya (chapter IX, verses 90-93)

*Words of Wisdom*

Objects and their knowledge are only reflections in the eternal, self-luminous, supreme Consciousness which is the same as the knower and which alone is real. The doubt that the reflection should be of all objects simultaneously without reference to time and place (contrary to our experience), need not arise because time and space are themselves knowable concepts and are equally reflections. The specific nature of the reflections is the obverse of the objects found in space.

Therefore, Prince, realize with a still mind your own true nature which is the one pure, undivided Consciousness underlying the restless mind which is composed of the whole universe in all its diversity.

If one is fixed in that fundamental basis of the universe (i.e., the Self), one becomes the All-doer. I shall tell you how to inhere thus. I assure you - you will be That.

~ Tripura Rahasya (chapter IX, verses 90-93)

'Devikalottara'~Quotes

Maintain a neutral attitude towards all things; do not get infatuated with anything; maintain equanimity whether in happiness or suffering; be the same to friends and enemies; treat alike a broken piece of mud pot and a piece of gold.
~ Devikalottara